by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2013 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
One of the oddities of organizational life is the fairly frequent and sudden promotion of individuals from competent individual contributor to someone responsible for the work of others…supervisor or manager, without any visible sign of mentoring or support for the...
by Art Petty | Feb 17, 2013 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Project Management, Strategy
In preparation for an upcoming presentation, I’ve become a bit obsessed with studying the 1910 expeditions and race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to 90-degrees South (the South Pole). The lessons for leaders and managers practically leap off the...
by Art Petty | Feb 14, 2013 | Leadership, Management Innovation
A recent issue of Barron’s cited a study by New York based rogenSi suggesting that workforce psyche took a tumble in the past year to crisis era levels. The research firm’s survey of 4,000 business professionals had half indicating that they felt “overwhelmed and...
by Art Petty | Feb 11, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I doubt that anyone reading this would disagree with the theme of, it’s important to be a good listener to be a good leader. However, in working with leaders at all levels striving to strengthen their performance, listening skills aren’t an issue some of the time,...
by Art Petty | Feb 5, 2013 | Just One Thing
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